Baron's Log : From n00b to whatever comes next

[Baron]

Originally Posted by toEleven

Glad to hear you're making progress and consciously developing skills.

While I do agree with Chris/chone about slowing down for the conditions, I overlooked (or he didn't mention) anything about vision. The snippets of your crashes that I highlighted above both involve stationary objects that you did not see. Slowing down is a safe place to start, but make sure you couple it with improved vision. Manhole covers don't come out of nowhere my friend.

Agreed. I need to start paying more attention. For some reason I rode a wee bit distracted all season long.

[LittleRedNinjette]

Learn from that and become a better, safer, rider this year.

[csmith12]

Originally Posted by Baron

I really really need to go the track. I am very aggressive by my nature and the fact that my aggression spills into my riding is …well…let’s just say that it’d going to get me killed if it goes on this way.

Looking forward to when you can hit the track. It most likely will do wonders for your ability to calm the urges to ride aggressively on the street. Also, don't let a wet track day rain on your parade. Imho... these wet laps at the track are some of the best days for street riders to explore themselves as riders and really, really, really learn to feel traction. What those riders learn, are directly translated to their next street ride.

Happy for your progress!

[Baron]

Originally Posted by LittleRedNinjette

Learn from that and become a better, safer, rider this year.

Yay!!!

Originally Posted by csmith12

Looking forward to when you can hit the track. It most likely will do wonders for your ability to calm the urges to ride aggressively on the street. Also, don't let a wet track day rain on your parade. Imho... these wet laps at the track are some of the best days for street riders to explore themselves as riders and really, really, really learn to feel traction. What those riders learn, are directly translated to their next street ride.

Happy for your progress!

Thanks. It'll probably be either this year or the next.Hopefully this year, trick is to balance finances which I can't do for the life of me. I love Uni but the debt is making me want to jump headfirst of a sodding bridge.